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HENRY H. POTTER, OF CARTHAGE, Nlllld/v YORK. Letters Patent No. 61,096, dated Jari nary 8, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLY-TRAPS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Bc it known that I, HENRY H. POTTER, of Carthage, in the county of .Icii'erson, and State of New York, have invented a new and usei'nl Improvement in Fly-Trap and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, Clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being,r had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this speciiication.

My invention consists in an arrangement of pans and wires combined with springs by which I ain enabled to make an effective trap for the destruction of house lics. In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 represents a top vic'woi' my trap as it appears when set.

Figure 2 is a transverse section of iig. l through the line x as.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A A are the pans upon which the dies alight, and upon which the bait is placed. B represents the end pleces orstandards of the trap. C is a hollow cylindrical vessel connecting the ends B together. D is a wire rod running through the upper portion of the ends B. E represents two spiral springs which are supported by ythe rodrD, the ends of which are attached to the two pans A, one end of each spring to one pan, and thc other 'end tofthe other pan, so that when the pans are opened the spring is strained at both ends and the tension is balanced thereby. Attached to the under side of these pans are wires a a, which are bent in such a form that when the trap Ais set as in the drawing, (iig. 1,) the wires encircle the vessel C, and the ends are bent so that' they hook together when the pans are extended or when the trap is set. j' is a bent lever of wire which passes through one ofy the ends and extends to the middle of the vessel C, or to where the two wires a a hook together under the vessel C. At this point the end of this lever is h'ent in such a ni'anner that when the outer end b is pressed down, the inner end will unhook the two wires a a, when the recoil of the spiral springs throws the two pans together killing the ies. When the pans are extended the ies drop into the vessel C which is partially filled with water. In this way the illes which infest a dwelling-house can soon be destroyed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. The vessel G, in cornbination with the two pans A A, for receiving the remains of the entrapped ies when the pans are opened, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The bent wires a a, their upper arms supporting the pans A A, and their lower ends interlocking and holding the pans open until released by the detent f, as and for the purpose specified.

HENRY H. POTTER. Witnesses C. L. FREDERICK, Gr. F. BrncHAnD'L 

